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How should the international community manage the risks of global climate change? Diplomats from 187 nations faced this question in December at the United Nations’ climate conference in Bali, Indonesia.

Their answer was a two-year plan for negotiating a new global climate policy that would start in 2013 - the year the Kyoto Protocol ends.

The “Bali Road Map” is intended to lead to an agreement on a global climate strategy. Key elements include a long-term goal for global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, commitments to reduce emissions by both developed and developing countries, programs to help countries cope with the effects of climate change, and incentives to accelerate the use of climate-friendly technologies.

Chinese antiques wisdom is not to be seen in the coal burning, CO2 emitting factories that are being built weekly in China today. Nor on the new color NO2 map of the world, showing east China as red hot polluted, worst by far on earth. Yet while China is now shown to be spewing now more noxious poisons into the air than every other nation, the leaders and the people defend that the filthy air is the natural price of progress. And besides, we hear from leaders in speeches, and people in the street now on the television screens, all defend the pollution, as they are all getting richer.